let's start with -- i love the idea of obama being obama. as you put it, the idea that the transparency, he was going to open this government up. something quite different as happened. >> oh, absolutely. i think the classic is the obamacare. far from being presented to the public for several days and the internet as he said he would was rushed through congress so fast that even the congressman admitted they had not had time to read it. they pass it and let it go. it's one of many great contrast between what he said he was going to do and what he actually did. lou: now there is, at least in the offing, the prospect of obama, should he win a second term. how reliable is this man in doing what he says he's going to do in your judgment? >> i think you would have a better batting average if you took the opposite of what he said as what he was going to do. what is scary is if he is reelected he will probably have at least one and probably a couple supreme court nominations to make. end as he has said it is off the record comments of the russian pr